APHG Module 40 Book Question

What is an economic risk to developing countries that is related to increasing exports of tropical products?

Overreliance on export commodities

According to the graph, during what period did less economically developed countries show a sharp increase in regional trade agreements that had an impact on global trade?

1995

What long-term twentieth-century famine can be traced to a government policy?

China's Great Leap Forward initiatives (1958-1961)

How did the Chinese government's response to the increase in consumption of chicken in China affect the poultry industry in the United States?

China's decision to increase the production of chickens for their domestic market led to a surplus for the export market, effectively ending the dominance of the United States in the global poultry market.

What correctly defines an export commodity?

Cotton in Mozambique that is grown at the expense of local food crops.

What describes the relationship between contract farmers in the United States and the global supply chain?

Dependence on multinational agribusinesses to sell their product on both national and global markets.

Throughout most of the 20th century, at what scale was agricultural trade policy determined?

Farm-level

What is a consequence of dependency on a single export commodity?

Food insecurity for local population

What is the similarity between proprietary seeds developed by an agribusiness and high-yielding seeds developed by the Green Revolution scientists?

High cost to farmers

What is the primary cause of hunger in the world today?

International political economics

What was the primary purpose of the road built between Veracruz and Mexico City during the Spanish colonization of Mexico?

Ship Aztec gold to Spain

What is the process that explains the interdependence of the global supply chain?

The process began with the Columbian exchange and became increasingly interdependent with the industrialization of agriculture and development of agribusinesses.

A distinguishing feature of a multinational company engaged in agribusiness is its

management of multiple stages of the production process.